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		<title>Disaster Recovery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there have been a couple articles on bMighty dealing with Disaster Recovery (Q&#38;A with Kelly Lipp and Disaster Preparedness for Small and Midsize Companies).  Both hit on a very important theme, especially for Small Businesses.  When most companies, specifically technology related companies, develop their disaster recovery plan, or even just think about it, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=62&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty IT Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an IT Manager at a small business, as I&#8217;m sure many of you know, I have many responsibilities.  Some of them I really enjoy, some of them&#8230;.not so much.  So, when I stumbled across this article about Dirty IT Jobs, I found it very interesting and could relate to quite a few of them.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=55&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exit Strategies Dry Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article very interesting.  Basically, it&#8217;s pointing out some potential harm all the red-tape of running a publicly traded company could be doing.  Sarbanes-Oxley has created a lot more work for businesses and we&#8217;ve seen a lot of companies go private mostly because of the higher costs related to being public.  Not only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=52&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wiki for Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long been a believer in the power of wikis at work in the business world.  bMighty had a great article recently on this with some brief case studies to show some of the benefits.  First of all, we&#8217;ll start with one great benefit a wiki has&#8230;.it&#8217;s not e-mail.  The more I use email [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=56&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Things IT Should be Doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a very interesting article in PC World about the Seven Things IT Should be Doing but Isn&#8217;t.  It points out some good places that IT managers should be focusing.  All in all, I think it makes some very good points.  I do think it appears to emphasize a few items of lesser [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=53&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you innovative enough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across an article this morning pointing out something brought up by Linus Torvalds.  I know many companies are always trying to be &#8220;innovative&#8221; and come up with the next big idea.  Linus, however, makes a very good point that this is really the wrong focus to have.  Anyone can come up with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=50&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green IT for the Small Business</title>
		<link>http://itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/green-it-for-the-small-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green is definitely the big buzz word now, even in IT.  Companies are taking close looks at their data centers and trying to find ways to make them &#8220;greener&#8221;.  At a small business, it&#8217;s hard to find the time and resources to look into this, but taking a few steps could not only be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=48&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Hiring Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across this article about one of the hiring practices of Zappos.  Basically, they put their new employees through a rigorous 2 week training program.  After the training program, the employee is offered $1,000 to quit.  So basically, the rigorous training program will weed out some real bad candidates and then the $1,000 offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=44&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Home and Forensics</title>
		<link>http://itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/the-internet-home-and-forensics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I&#8217;m suffering from a bit of a brain drain this Wednesday so time for a fun and interesting post a little off topic.  Still a security post, but not really related to business as I try to keep it.  As you can tell from my blog links on the side, on of the blogs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=24&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asset Management with SaaS</title>
		<link>http://itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/asset-management-with-saas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I previously posted on License and Patch Management which is very closely related to asset management.  The solution we chose for License and Patch Mangement, the KBOX 1000, also does asset management.  Asset Management, in general, just means keeping track of all your assets.  When we are talking about Asset Management in IT, we generally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itatsmallbiz.wordpress.com&blog=3971077&post=43&subd=itatsmallbiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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